Prominy LPC - Advice from a user?

[AGMusic]

Hello. I wanted to check and see if anyone here could advise me re. the prominy LPC library. I wanted to be able to do repetitions of of things like single notes or fifths (muted) but I'm finding that other guitar libraries out there just do 2 samples (up and down strokes) per cycle. This isn't very convincing if you're looking to play a bar of eigths or sixteenths on a single pitch (think "Radar Love"). Anyone know how many repetitions exist within any given LPC cycle? Perhaps I've been spoiled by the files labled (RR x 6) in the East West libraries? Anyone have any knowledge of the product?

Thanks!

-AG

[jeffn1]

Hello. I wanted to check and see if anyone here could advise me re. the prominy LPC library. I wanted to be able to do repetitions of of things like single notes or fifths (muted) but I'm finding that other guitar libraries out there just do 2 samples (up and down strokes) per cycle. This isn't very convincing if you're looking to play a bar of eigths or sixteenths on a single pitch (think "Radar Love"). Anyone know how many repetitions exist within any given LPC cycle? Perhaps I've been spoiled by the files labled (RR x 6) in the East West libraries? Anyone have any knowledge of the product?

Thanks!

-AG

I don't know the number of repetitions, but there is a single note repeat repetition articulation, where the note is struck you hit the key and when you release that sounds great to my ears. I have found the fifth mutes sound great too, but I never tried quick repeating mutes.

I guess you listened to the demos and checked out the video that shows off the superperfomance multi?

jeffn1

[AGMusic]

Thanks Jeffn1. I have checked out all the demo/video stuff and it sounds great but the repeated notes are all distorted. This unfortunately helps mask the machine gun effect so I wanted to see if anyone has had any luck with multiple repetitions on a single note with the clean (or cleraner) patch. I recently bought the Ministry of Rock by EW and have specifically run into this problem when trying to repeat anything clean. I digress. Thanks for your help.

-AG.

[Tomdini]

I have extensive knowledge of this product. :) I may even dare to venture that I am the master of LPC! Aaaahahahaha...

I love this library. It is the best-sounding guitar library out there. Beautiful and natural - it sounds just like a real Les Paul. Prominy really nailed the tone.

There are four or five velocities for each note, so vary that a bit and you'll be fine. Plus, if you're compressing the signal, each different velocity value will have roughly the same volume (but a different timbre), so that works even better.

I use the UTKT script in K2. That works the best.

So the answer is - there are no round robin samples. There are four to five velocity layers, depending on the patch used. Combined with compression, down- and upstroke samples, and the UTKT script in Kontakt 2, you can repeat any articulation in LPC 'til you're blue in the face and it'll sound great.

-Tom

[AGMusic]

Thanks! That's exactly the advice I needed. I'll look into the UTKT script. Not familiar with it but I'll check it out when I'm back at the studio on monday.

Much appreciated.

-ag